The new release enables users to make critical decisions about RF and DSP architecture more effectively by bringing real-world modeling, standards-based validation and links to high-performance test equipment into the R&D environment. Doing so reduces design iterations and project risk for emerging wireless and defense technologies, while allowing faster deployment.

High-Performance MIMO and Phased-Array Radar

SystemVue’s W1905 radar model library now offers sophisticated signal-processing support for array-based radar technologies such as MIMO, phased-array and synthetic-aperture radars. With the new release, radar architects can now evaluate array-based radar architectures using approximately 70 simulation reference blocks and 50 application examples. They can also use their own signal-processing algorithms in a variety of modeling formats, including C++, math, FPGA/HDL and SystemC.

SystemVue also allows radar architects to account for a variety of other system-level effects to render realistic virtual scenarios that include:

“SystemVue provides a sophisticated cockpit that lowers the cost of the radar system design cycle,” said Dingqing Lu, senior application planner at Agilent. “By modeling the algorithms, RF transmit/receive path and environment, as well as linking to gigahertz-wide test equipment, our customers are reducing their dependence on expensive flight-testing, ranges and dedicated hardware emulators.”